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BY THEODORE TILTON. 



[The following is part of an editorial article in the Independent, May 22, 1S62.— 
Ed. Pulpit and Rostrum.] 

Me. Beownlow is drawing nigh to sixty years of age, tall and 
slender in figure, with dark hair and eyes, a face of remarkably 
sharp outlines, wearing just now a look of illness and weariness 
by reason of his rigorous imprisonment. He came originally from 
Virginia, hailing from the same birth-place with Floyd, near 
"Wythe, in the western part of the State. lie began life honest, as 
he says, and has remained poor ; while Floyd, turning knavish, has 
grown rich. Till his twenty-fifth year he was a house-carpenter. 
Then, dropping his jack-plane, he took the saddle-bags of a travel- 
ing Methodist preacher, and rode a hard circuit for ten years. Be- 
coming engrossed in the political questions of the time, and never, 
as he testifies, remaining neutral on any subject, he became a parti- 
san leader in politics, and soon began to exercise great influence as 
the editor of a newspaper — an employment which, for thirty 
years, has supplied him with plenty of hard work. 

He exhibits in his character a singular union of high moral and 
intellectual qualities with an almost unaccountable deficiency of 
that sense of the fitness of things which we call good taste. Thus, 
in his personal habits, he is singularly pure ; he never tastes liquor, 
never has used tobacco, never has seen a play at a theater, and 
never has dealt a pack of cards — a remarkable record for a South- 
erner. But when he opens his lips, his language, although without 
positive profanity (except when quoting other men's), is often so 
grating to polite ears that it keeps secsiti re listeners from blushes 
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4 SKETCH OF PARSON BEOWNLOW. 

only because it irresistibly provokes to laughter. lie confesses 
tbat bis cbief natural gift is in piling epithets upon the heads 
of scoundrels. lie knows no pleasure equal to discovering a new 
rascal, or a new rascality of an old one, and printing the name and 
facts in capital letters in the next Knoxville Wliig. But he is a 
man whom a thorough New England training, moral and intel- 
lectual, would have built up into a dignified, impressive, and splen- 
did character. He is one of many men in the South, made of 
nature's best stuff, whom the influence of slavery, unconsciously 
to themselves, has defrauded of their just rank in the scale of true 
nobility and honorable fame. 

T\*hen the question arose of the secession of Tennessee, he made 
an intrepid stand against it. Having thus stirred a hornet's nest, 
he had not to wait long to feel the stings. He was insulted to his 
face, dogged in his walks, and threatened with pistol-shots. Ho 
was commanded by traitors to transfer the allegiance of his paper 
to Jefferson Davis, but indignantly refused. He was then tempted 
with a bribe, which he still more indignantly spurned. Then his 
pen was smitten out of his hands. The traitors invaded his office, 
stopped his press, and turned his press-room into a machine-shop 
for boring rifles to aim at loyal hearts. Still continuing to show 
his personal allegiance to the Union, he was hunted out of Kuox- 
ville and driven to take refuge in the wastes of the Smoky Mount- 
ains, where ho shot bears and wild turkeys, and slept on a blanket 
on the bare ground. Meanwhile, without his knowledge, his wifo 
procured from Richmond a pass to permit him to retire from the 
State. This fact, being communicated to him in his mountain re- 
treat, brought him back to Knoxville, where, as soon as he showed 
his face, he was seized, in violation of the pledge, thrown into jail, 
and kept in loathsome confinement for three months. 

During his stay in the prison, almost every day a cart with a 
coffin drove to the door, and some victim was taken out to be 
hung. The prisoners, none of whom were charged with any other 
offense than loyalty to the I nion, seldom had a day's, and some- 
times not an hour's, notice when the cart would call, or for whom. 



SKETCH OF PAESON BEOWNLOW. 5 

Mr. Brownlow, after fully expecting to be hung, and after prepar- 
ing a speech to be delivered on the gallows, was finally ordered out 
of confinement, and out of the Confederacy. 

At Nashville, while on his way to the North, he met Andrew 
Johnson. It was a singular meeting. The two men had been bit- 
ter enemies for twenty-five years, never cpeaking to one another 
in all that time. The quarrel arose out of the partisan warfare 
waged over the names of General Jackson and John Quincy 
Adams, Johnson siding with Jackson, and Brownlow with Adams. 
But at Nashville the two men met face to face, each offered to the 
other his right hand, both shed tears, neither spoke a word, but 
immediately separated, mutually reconciled ! It was honorable to 
both men — the grudge of a lifetime melted away by one good act 
of mutual magnanimity ! 

These are the two men who now represent before the nation 
the spirit and temper of the people of East Tennessee. That 
mountainous country is guarded by a hardy race, accustomed to 
toil, owning few slaves, eager disputants in political struggles, and 
proudly jealous of their civil rights. Unlike the other portions«f 
the State, where slavery has more completely corrupted the people, 
labor is held honorable, and laziness despised. 

Johnson, like Brownlow, is a man who has grown up with a 
loyal respect for hard work. As Brownlow came from one of the 
" second families of Virginia," Johnson came from a similar family 
in North Carolina. He was a tailor. Think of it ! The military 
governor of a slave State having been a tailor, and not a cavalier ! 
He walked, as a young man, across the mountains into East Ten- 
nessee, carrying his needles and scissors in a pack over his shoulder. 
He could not read, but soon married a good woman who taught him 
how. He bent over his seams in the daytime, and over his books 
at night. Joining a debating society, he soon began the art of 
thinking on his legs. In due time he went to Nashville, first as 
legislator, and afterward as governor, returning home in the inter- 
vals of public business to make jackets and trowsers for an honest 
living. The town of Greenville, among the mountains, still shows 



g SKETCH OF PAESON BEOWNLOW. 

the sign, "Andrew Johnson, Tailor." Shortly after rising from the 
tailor's bench to the governor's chair, an early friend, who had 
been a blacksmith, became Judge Pepper, chief-justice of the State. 
The governor made with his own hands a suit of clothes and pre- 
sented them to the judge, and the judge made with his own hands 
a shovel and tongs and presented them to the governor. 

The secret of the steadfast loyalty of East Tennessee lies in one 
fact : The people own few slaves, and have never learned to despise 
labor. In all the States, and sections of States, where labor has 
been held honorable, and the laborer has not been degraded, there 
has been no rebellion against the Government. In all the States 
and districts where the prevailing spirit of the people has been of 
subserviency to slavery, the sentiment of loyalty has been tainted, 
and the rebellion has been welcomed. The fact is full of signifi- 
cance. It demonstrates beyond question that the great struggle 
now shaking the land is undisguisedly between slavery and free- 
dom. All men's eyes are opening to this fact — even Mr. Brown- 
low's. For though he has never been an Abolitionist, yet his late 
wounds and sufferings were inflicted by slavery, and he knows it. 
"We were not surprised, therefore, to hear him make a singular 
confession in his Brooklyn speech. "If the issue," said he, "were 
between the Christian religion and tho Union, I would go against 
the Union ; if it be between the Union and slavery, I will go 
against slavery" — thus unconsciously putting slavery at the third 
remove from the Christian religion — and that is where it belongs 1 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 



An Address by Parson Brmonlow {Rev. W. G. Broimlmv, D.D.), delivered 
before the citizens of New York, at the Academy of Music, May 15, 1862. 



EEPOCTED BY CIIAS. B. OOLLAB. 



TnE Reception of Parson Brownlow on this his first public ap- 
pearance in New York, was marked by the most hearty and enthu- 
siastic demonstrations. Long before the hour named for the com- 
mencement of the proceedings, a dense throng, thousands in number, 
had assembled, filling all the seats, aisles, and lobbies, from the par- 
quette to the upper tiers — the parquette being reserved especially for 
ladies accompanied by gentlemen. Hundreds of leading citizens 
occupied the stage — the various professions being well represented 
by many distinguished gentlemen, evincing by their presence on 
this occasion their desire to render a just tribute of praise to the 
gallant Parson, whose sufferings, as a Union man, had awakened 
so general a sympathy throughout the whole community. As the 
Parson was conducted upon the stage by Chas. T. Eodgers, the 
President of the Young Men's Republican Union, under whose" 
auspices the Reception was given, he was received with the most 
rapturous applause, the audience, en masse, rising to their feet, 
waving their hats and handkerchiefs, and joining in one universal 
shout of applause. 

Mr. Eodgers stated that, according to the announcement through 
the press, it was expected that Governor Morgan would preside ; 
but he had received a letter from his Excellency, regretting that his 
official duties prevented his attendance on so interesting an occa- 
sion, as he felt extremely anxious, in common with thousands of his 
fellow-citizens of New York, to enjoy the opportunity thus afforded 
of expressing his admiration of and sympathy for the man who, 
with true heroism, had withstood the blandishments and braved 
the threats of the leaders and fomenters of the conspiracy against 
the Union. 

Wm. M. Evaets, Esq., being called to the chair, said that he 
shared with all the great disappointment at the absence of the 
Governor of the State. But we might well pardon the loss of his 



8 PAESON BEOWNLOW ON THE 

dignity to the eclat of the occasion, when we knew that his absence 
was due to that necessity which at this time enveloped all who 
were invested with public trusts. He wis proud to do all that ho 
could to testify his appreciation of the heroism of Mr. Brownlow. 
As we should proceed in the great duties first of subduing the re- 
bellion, and then of reinstituting in its strength the Constitution as 
it is, and the Union as it is, we might be sure that these Union men 
of Tennessee, and their compatriots in the mountains of North 
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, would aid us. 
With their aid we should hold the center as well as the rim of the 
rebellion. Upon them as a basis we could reinstate the dominion 
of the Government all over the land. He would no longer stand 
between them and the Eev. Mr. Brownlow, whom he now had the 
pleasure of introducing. [Loud and long- continued and repeated 
applause.] 
Mr. Brownlow then came forward and spoke as follows : 
Ladies and Gentlemen — I take occasion, in advance of anything 
and all I may say, to apprise you of what you all will have discov- 
ered before I take my seat — that is to say, that in my public ad- 
dresses, no matter what my theme may be, I do not present it to 
an audience with an eloquence that charms, or with that beauty 
of diction which captivates and fascinates an assemblage. This, I 
may be allowed to say, I most sincerely regret, because there is no 
power on earth so great, and of such influence upon the human 
mind, as the power and influence of oratory, finished and high 
wrought. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears ; Cicero, 
by captivating their affections. The influence of one perished with 
Hs author; the influence of the other has continued throughout all 
time, and, with public speakers, will continue to the end of time. 
But there is one thing I am confident of, this evening, and that 
is, that I address an appreciative audience, an assemblage who 
have congregated on this occasion to hear some facts in reference 
to the great rebellion South — the gigantic conspiracy of tho nine- 
teenth century ; and I shall therefore look more to what I shall say 
than to tho manner of saying it — more, if you please, to the sub- 
ject-matter of what I shall say than to any studied effort at display 
or beauty and force of language. I will be allowed by you an ad- 
ditional remark or two, personal in their nature to myself. For tho 
last thirty-five years of my somewhat eventful life I have been 
aocustomed to speak in public upon all the subjects afloat in the 
land, for 1 have never been neutral on any subject that ever came 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 9 

up iii that time. [Laughter and applause.] Independent in all 
things, and under all circumstances, I have never been entirely 
neutral, but have always f .aken a hand in what was afloat. About 
three years ago my voice entirely failed from a stubborn attack of 
bronchitis, and for two years of that time I was unable to speak 
above a whisper. During that period I performed a pilgrimage to 
New York and had an operation performed upon my throat, and 
was otherwise treated by an eminent physician of this city, who 
greatly benefited me, and who, when I parted with him, enjoined 
it upon me to go home and occasionally exercise my speaking ma- 
chinery, and, if I could do no better, to retire to the grove of the 
town or village where I live, and to make short speeches, to declaim 
upon stumps or logs, as the case might be. Instead of doing so, 
however, in the town in which I live I frequently addressed a tem- 
perance organization in favor of total abstinence; and you all 
know that is a good cause. [" Good," and applause.] At other 
times, as a regular ordained licensed Methodist preacher, I tried to 
deliver short sermons to the audience. That is a good cause, you 
admit. [Applause.] And yet both together failed to restore my 
voice — [laughter] — and when I left home for the North, by way of 
Cincinnati, I had no intention or expectation of making a speech; 
but as soon as I opened my batteries in Pike's Opera House, in Cin- 
cinnati, against this infinitely infernal rebellion, I found myself able 
to speak, and to be heard half a mile. [Great laughter.] I attribute 
the partial restoration of my voice to the goodness, the glory, and 
the Godlike cause in which I profess to be engaged — that of vindi- 
cating the Union. [Applause.] We are, ladies and gentlemen, in 
the midst of a revolution, and a most fearful one, as you all know 
it is. I shall, in the remarks I may make here, advance no senti- 
ment, no idea ; I shall employ no language that I have not advanced 
and employed time and again at home, away down in Dixie. 
[" Good," and applause.] I should despise myself, and merit the 
scorn and contempt of every lady and gentleman under the sound 
of my voice, if I were to come here with one set of principles and 
opinions for the North, and another set for the South when I am 
there. [Applause.] I will utter no denunciations of the wretched, 
the corrupt, and the infamous men who inaugurated this revolu- 
tion South here, that I would not utter in their hearing on the 
streets of the town where I reside. I therefore say to you in the 
outset of my remarks I propose to make, what I have time and 
again said through the columns of the most widely circulated paper 



JO PARSON BROWNLOW ON THE 

they had in the Southwest — a paper, hy the way, which they sup- 
pressed and crushed out on the 25th of October last— the last Union 
journal that remained in any portion of the Southern Confederacy, 
and to this good hour the last and the only religious journal in the 
eleven seceded States. [Applause.] I say to you, then, as I have 
said at home time and again, that the people of the South, the 
demagogues and leaders of the South, are to blame for having 
brought about tins state of things, and not the people of the North. 
[Cheers.] We have intended down South for thirty years to break 
up this Government. It has been our settled purpose and our sole 
aim down South to destroy the Union and break up the Govern- 
ment. We have had the Presidency in the Soutli twice to your 
once, and five of our men were re-elected to the Presidency, filling 
a period of forty years. In addition to that, we had divers men 
elected for one term, and no man at the North ever was permitted 
to serve more than one term ; and, in addition to having elected 
our men twice to your once, and occupied the chair twice as long 
as you ever did, we seized upon and appropriated two or three 
miscreants from the North that we elected to the Presidency, and 
plowed with them as our heifers. [Great laughter and applause.] 
We asked of you and obtained at your hands a fugitive slave law. 
You voted for and helped us to enact and to estahlish it. We 
asked of you and obtained the repeal of the Missouri Compromise 
line, which never ought to have been repealed. I fought against 
it to the bitter end, and denounced it and all concerned in repeal- 
ing it, and I repeat it here again to-night. We asked and obtained 
the admission of Texas into the Union, that we might have slave 
territory enough to form some four or five more great States, and 
you granted it. You have granted us, from first to last, all we 
have asked, all we have desired ; and hence I repeat, that this thing 
of secession, this wicked attempt to dissolve the Union, has been 
brought about without the shadow of a cause. It is the work of 
the worst men that ever God permitted to live on the face of this 
earth. [Applause.] It, is the work of a set of men down South 
wlio, in Minding up this rebellion, if our administration and Gov- 
ernment shall tail to hang them as high as Hainan — hang every one 
of them — they will make an utter failure. I have confidence my- 
self, and, thank God, I have always had faith and confidence, in 
the Government crashing out this rebellion. [Applause.] Wo 
have the men at the head of affairs who will do it — [cheers] — and 
that gallant and glorious man, MeClellan — [enthusiastic cheering 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. JJ 

and waving of handkerchiefs, which lasted for some minutes] — a 
man in whose ability and integrity I have all the time had confi- 
dence, and prophesied he wonld come out right side up. [Laugh- 
ter and applause.] My* own distracted and oppressed section of the 
country, East Tennessee, falls now by the new arrangement into 
the military district of that hero, Fremont. [Great cheering and 
some hisses.] We rejoiced in East Tennessee when we heard that 
we had fallen into his division — [applause] — and although I have 
always differed with him in politics, yet, in a word, he is my sort 
of man. He will either make a spoon or spoil a horn — [great 
laughter] — in the attempt. When he gets ready to go down into 
East Tennessee, I hope he will let me know. I want to go with 
him, side by side, on a fine horse, with epaulets, a cocked hat, and 
a sword ; and our friend Briggs, of New York, a former member of 
Congress, who is now on the platform, has promised me a large 
coil of rope, and I want the pleasure of showing them whom to hang 
— of tying the rope around their necks. [Great applause.] I re- 
marked that I had confidence in our Government and army ulti- 
mately crushing out this rebellion. We have had just a few experi- 
ments in this thing of crushing out rebellion. We had, a long time 
ago, one on a small scale in Massachusetts, and the Government 
crushed it out. Afterward we had the whisky rebellion in the 
neighboring State of Pennsylvania, and the Government applied 
the screws and crushed it out. Still more recently we had a 
terrible rebellion in South Carolina, and, with old Hickory at 
the helm, we crushed it out — [applause] — and if my prayers 
and tears could have resurrected the old hero two years ago — 
though I never supported him in my life — and placed him in the 
chair disgraced and occupied by that miserable mockery of a man 
from Wheatland, we would have had this rebellion crushed out 
long ago ; for, let General Jackson have been in politics what he 
was — I knew him well — he was a true patriot and a sincere lover 
of his country. [Cheers.] 

When Floyd commenced stealing muskets and other implements 
of war, and his associates commenced plotting treason, had Old 
Hickory been President, rising about ten feet in his boots and tak- 
ing Floyd by the collar, he would have sworn by the God that 
made Moses, this thing must stop. [Great laughter and applause.] 
And when Andrew Jackson swore that a thing had to stop, it had 
to stop. [Laughter.] More recently still, we had a rebellion in 
the neighboring State of Pthode Island, known as the Dorr rebel- 



12 PAESON BKOWNLOW ON THE 

Hon, and the Government very efficiently and very properly pnt it 
down ; but the great conspiracy of the nineteenth century and the 
great rebellion of the age is now on hand, and I believe that Abe 
Lincoln, with the people to back him, will crush it out. [Cheers 
and applause.] It will be done, it must be done, and it shall 
be done — [great cheering] — and, having done that thing, gentlemen 
and ladies, if they will give us a few weeks' rest to recruit, we will 
lick England and France both, if they wish it — [loud applause] — 
and I am not certain but we will have to do it — particularly Old 
England. [Great laughter.] Sbe has been playing a double, a 
two-fisted game, and she was well represented by Eussell, for he 
carried water on both shoulders. I don't like the tone of her jour- 
nals, and when this war is finished, we shall have four or five hun- 
dred thousand well-drilled, hardened officers and men, inured to the 
hardships of war, under the lead of experienced officers, and then we 
shall be ready for the rest of the world and the balance of mankind. 
"When the rebellion first opened — something like twelve months 
ago — I saw, as every reading and observing man could see, 
where we were driving to, and what would be the state of things 
in a very short time. In the inauguration of the rebellion I took 
sides with the Union and with the Stars and Stripes of my 
country. [Applause.] How could I do otherwise? I had trav- 
eled the circuit as a Methodist preacher in the State of South 
Carolina in 1832, in Pickens and Anderson counties (Anderson 
County being the one where John C. Calhoun lived), and I fought 
with all the ability I possessed, and all the energy I could muster, 
the heresy of nullification then. I even prepared a pamphlet in 
South Carolina, of seventy pages, backing up and sustaining Old 
Hickory, and denouncing the nullifiers — and (hey threatened to 
hang me then. I have been a Union man all my life. [Applause.] 
I have never been a sectional man. I commenced my political 
career in Tennessee in the memorable year of 1828, and I was one, 
thank God, of the corporal's guard who got up the electoral ticket 
for John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson. In the next 
contest I was for Clay. [Great cheering.] You and I and all of us 
cheer and applaud the mention of the name of Henry Clay. I 
propose to move, when this rebellion is over, that we shall hold a 
National Convention, and I will put in nomination for the Pres- 
idency, the lust suit of clothes that Clay wore before his death. 
[Great laughter and applause.] When the rebellion fairly opened, 
and was under way in Tennessee, they saw the course my 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 13 

paper was taking, and they approached me, as they did every other 
editor of a Union paper in the country, with money. They knew 
I was poor, and they supposed it would have the same influence 
over me that it had over almost all the other Union editors of the 
South, for they had bought up the last devil of them all through- 
out the South. [Laughter and cheers.] I told them as one did of 
old : " Thy money perish with thee." I pursued the even tenor of 
my way until the stream rose higher and higher with secession fire, 
as red and hot as hell itself, and commenced pouring along that 
great artery of travel, the railroad to Manassas, Yorktown, Eich- 
mond, and Petersburg. Then it was that, wanting in transporta- 
tion, wanting in rolling stock, wanting in locomotives, they had to 
lie over by regiments in our town, and then they commenced to 
ride Union men upon rails. I have seen that done in the streets, 
and have seen them break into the stores and empty their con- 
tents ; and coming before my house with ropes in their hands, they 

would groan out, " Let us give old Brownlow a turn, the d d 

old scoundrel ; come out, and we will hang you to the first tree." 
I would appear, sometimes, on the front portico of my house, and 
would address them in this way : " Men, what do you want with 
me ?" for I was very select in my words. I took particular pains 
to never say gentlemen. [Laughter.] " Men, what do you want 
with me ?" " We want a speech from you ; we want you to come 
out for the Southern Confederacy." To which I replied: "I 
have no speech to make to you. You know me as well as I know 
you ; I am utterly and irreconcilably opposed to this infernal rebel- 
lion in which you are engaged, and I shall fight it to the bitter end. 
I hope that if you are going on to kill the Yankees in search of 
your rights, that you will get your rights before you get back." 
, These threats toward me were repeated every day and every week, 
until finally they crushed out my paper, destroyed my office, ap- 
propriated the building to an old smith's shop, to repair the locks 
and barrels of old muskets that Floyd had stolen from the Federal 
Government. They finally enacted a law in the Legislature of 
Tennessee authorizing an armed force to take all the arms, pistols, 
guns, dirks, swords, and everything of the sort from all the Union 
men, and they paid a visit to every Union house in the State. 
They visited mine three times in succession upon that business, 
and they got there a couple of guns and one pistol. Being a Doctor 
of Divinity myself, I was not largely supplied, and had the balance 



]4 PARSON BROWNLOW ON TITE 

concealed under my clothes. [Great laughter.] Finally, after 
depriving us of all our arms throughout the State, and after taking 
all the fine horses of the Union men everywhere, without fee or 
reward, for cavalry horses, and seizing upon the fat hogs, corn, 
fodder, and sheep, going into houses and pulling the beds off the 
bedsteads in the daytime, seizing upon all the blankets they could 
find, for the army ; after breaking open chests, bureaus, drawers, 
and everything of that sort — in which they were countenanced and 
tolerated by the authorities, civil and military — our people rose up 
in rebellion, unarmed as they were, and one Saturday night in 
November, by accident — I know it was — precisely at 11 o'clock, 
from Chattanooga to the Virginia line — a distance of 300 miles — 
all the railroad bridges took fire at one time. [Cheers and 
applause.] It was purely accidental. I happened to be out from 
home at the time. [Laughter.] I had really gone out on horse- 
back — as they had suppressed my paper — to collect the fees which 
the sheritfs' clerks of the ditferent counties were owing me, which 
they, being Union men, were ready and willing to pay me, know- 
ing that I needed them to live upon ; and as these bridges took 
fire while I was out of town, they swore that I was the bell-wether 
and ringleader of all the devilment that was going on, and hence 
that I must have had a hand in it. They wanted a pretext to 
seize upon me, and upon the 6th day of December they marched 
me oft" to jail — a miserable, uncomfortable, damp, and desperate 
jail — where I found, when I was ushered into it, some 150 Union 
men; and, as God is my judge, I say here to-night, there was not 
in the whole jail a chair, bench, stool, or table, or any piece of 
furniture, except a dirty old wooden bucket and a pair of tin dip- 
pers to drink with. I found some of the first and best nun of the 
whole country there. I knew them all, and they knew me, as [ 
had been among them for thirty years. They rallied round me, 
some smiling and glad to see me, as I could give them the news 
that had been kept from them. Others took me by the hand, and 
were utterly speechless, and, with hitter, burning tears running 
down their cheeks, they said that they never thought that fchej 
would come to this at last, looking through the bars of a grate. 
Speaking first to one and then another, I hade them he ol 'good 
cheer and take good courage. Addressing them, I said. " Is it for 

stealing you are here ? No. Is it for counterfeiting 1 No. Is it 

for manslaughter? No. You are here, boys, because you adhere 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. J 5 

to the flag and the Constitution of our country. [Cheers.] I am 
here with you for no other offense but that ; and, as God is my 
judge, boys, I look upon this 6th day of December as the proudest 
day of my life. [Great applause.] And here I intend to stay until 
I die of old age, or until they choose to hang me. I will never 
renounce my principles." [Cheers.] 

Before I was confined in the jail, their officers were accustomed 
to visit the jail every day and offer them their liberty, if they 
would take the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy and 
volunteer to go into the service, and they would guarantee them 
safety and protection. They were accustomed to volunteer a dozen 
at a time, so great was their horror of imprisonment and the bad 
treatment they received in that miserable jail. After I got into 
the jail — and they had me in close confinement for three dreadful 
winter months — all this volunteering and taking the oath ceased, 
and the leaders swore I did it. [Great cheering.] One of the 
brigadier-generals, the son of an ex-Governor of that State, who 
was in command of the military post, paid me a special visit, two 
of his aids accompanying him. lie came in, bowed and scraped, 
dressed within an inch of his drunken life, saying : " Why, Brownlow, 
you ought not to be in here." "But your authorities," I replied, 
" have thought otherwise, and they have put me here." " I have 
come to inform you that if you will take the oath of allegiance to 
the Southern Confederacy, we will guarantee the protection and 
safety of yourself and family." Bising up several feet in my boots 
at that time, having my Irish raised and looking him full in the 
eye, " Why," said I, "I intend to lie here until I rot from disease, 
or die of old age, before I will take the oath of allegiance to your 
government. I deny your right to administer such an oath. I 
deny that you have any government other than a Southern mob. 
You have never been recognized by any civilized power on the 
face of the earth, and you never will be. [Applause.] And, sir, 
preacher as I am, I will see the Southern Confederacy, and you 
and me on top of it, in the infernal regions, before I will do it." 
" Well," said he, " that's d d plain talk." [Laughter and ap- 
plause.] " Yes," I replied, " that's the way to talk in revolutionary 
times." [Applause.] But I must hasten on. I will detain you too 
long. [Loud cries of " Go on, go on."] But, gentlemen and 
ladies, things went on. They tightened up ; they grew tighter, and 
still more tight. Many of our company became sick. We had to 



IQ PAESON BEOWNLOW ON THE 

lie upon that miserable, cold, naked floor, with not room enough 
for us all to lie down at the same time — and you may think what 
it must have been in December and January — spelling each other, 
one lying down awhile on the floor, and then another taking his 
place so made w T arm, and that was the way we managed until 
many became sick unto death. A number of the prisoners died of 
pneumonia and typhoid fever, and other diseases contracted by ex- 
posure there. I shall never forget, while my head is above ground, 
the scenes I passed through in that jail. I recollect two vener- 
able Baptist clergymen who were there — Mr. Pope and Mr. 
Cate. Mr. Cate was very low indeed, prostrated from the fever 
and unable to eat the miserable food sent there by the corrupt 
jailer and deputy marshal — a man whom I had denounced in my 
paper as guilty of forgery time and time again — a suitable repre- 
sentative of the thieves and scoundrels that head this rebellion in 
the South. [Applause.] The only favor they extended to me was 
to allow my family to send me three meals a day by my son, who 
brought the provisions in a basket. I requested my wife to send 
also enough for the two old clergymen. One of them was put in 
jail for offering prayers for the President of the United States, and 
the other was confined for throwing up his hat and cheering the 
Stars and Stripes as they passed his house, borne by a company of 
Union volunteers. When the basket of provisions came in the 
morning, they examined it at the door, would look between the pie 
and the plate to see if there was any billet or paper concealed 
there communicating treason from any outside Unionist to the old 
scoundrel they had in jail ; and when the basket went out, again the 
same ceremony was repeated, to discover w hether I had slipped in 
any paper in any way. The old man Cate had three sons in jail. 
One of them, James Madison Cate, a most exemplary and worthy 
member of the Baptist church, who was there for having commit- 
ted no other crime than thai of refusing to volunteer, lay stretched 
at length upon the floor, with one thickness of a piece of carpet 
under him and an old overcoat doubled up for a pillow, in the very 
agonies of death, unable to turn over, only from one side to the 
other. Hia wife came to visit him, bringing her youngest child 
with her, which was but a babe, but they refused her admittance. 
1 pnt my head out of the jail window, and entreated them, for 
God's Bake, to Let the poor woman come iii, as her husband was 
dying. They at last consented that she might see him for the 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 17 

limited time of fifteen minntes. As she came in and looked upon 
her husband's wan and emaciated face, and saw how rapidly he 
was sinking, she gave evident signs of fainting, and would have 
fallen to the floor with the babe in her arms, had I not rushed up 
to her and cried, "Let me have the babe," and then she sank down 
upon the breast of her dying husband, unable at first to speak a 
single word. I sat by and held the babe until the fifteen minutes 
had expired, when the officer came in, and in an insulting and per- 
emptory manner notified her that the interview was to close. I 
hope I may never see such a scene again ; and yet such cases were 
common all over East Tennessee. 

Such actions as these show the spirit of secession in the South. 
It is the spirit of murder and assassination — it is the spirit of hell. 
And yet you have men at the North who sympathize with these 
infernal murderers. [Applause.] If I owed the devil a debt to 
be discharged, and it was to be discharged by the rendering up to 
him of a dozen of the meanest, most revolting, and God-forsaken 
wretches that ever could be culled from the ranks of depraved hu- 
man society, and I wanted to pay that debt and get a premium 
upon the payment, I would make a tender to his Satanic Majesty 
of twelve Northern men who sympathized with this infernal rebel- 
lion. [Great cheering.] If I am severe and bitter in my remarks 
— [cries of " No, no ; not a bit of it"] — if I am, gentlemen, you 
must consider that we in the South make a personal matter of 
this thing. [Laughter.] We have no respect or confidence in any 
Northern man who sympathizes with this infernal rebellion — 
[cries of " Good, good"] — nor should any be tolerated in walking 
Broadway at any time. Such men ought to be ridden upon a rail 
and ridden out of the North. [" Good, good."] They should 
be either for or against the " mill-dam ;" and I would make them 
show their hands. [Laughter and applause.] Why, gentlemen, 
after the battle at Manassas and Bull Bun, the officers and privates 
of the Confederate army passed through our town on their way to 
Dixie, exulting over the victory they had achieved, and some of 
them had what they called Yankee heads, the entire heads of 
Federal soldiers, some of them with long beards and goatees, by 
which they would take them up, shake them out of the windows 
of the cars, and say, " See ! here is the head of a d d soldier cap- 
tured at Bull Bun!" That is the spirit of secession at the South. 
It is the spirit of murder, of the vile untutored savage ; it is the 



Jg PAESON BEOWNLOW ON THE 

spirit of hell ; and he who apologizes for them is no better than those 
who perpetrate the deed. [Cheers.] In Andy Johnson's town — 
[three cheers for Johnson were here given] — and while Johnson's 
name is on my lips, I will make another remark or two here : If 
Mr. Lincoln had consulted the Union men of Tennessee as to whom 
they wanted for military Governor of the State, to a man they 
would have responded, Andy Johnson. I have fought that man for 
twenty -five long and terrible years : I fougbt him systematically, 
perse veringly, and untiringly ; but it was upon the old issues of 
Whiggery and Democracy, and now we will fight for one another. 
[Great cheering.] We have merged in Tennessee all other parties 
and predilections in this great question of the Union. [Cheers.] 
We are the Union men of Tennessee, unconditional Union men — • 
[cheers] — and the miserable wretch who will attempt here or else- 
where to resurrect old exploded parties and party issues, and try to 
make capital out of this war, deserves the gallows and deserves death. 
[Great applause.] In Andy Johnson's town they had the jail full 
of prisoners, drove his family out of his house — his wife being in 
the last stages of consumption — appropriated Ids house, carpets, 
and bedding for a hospital, and his wife had to take shelter with 
one of her daughters in an adjoining county, and Johnson has in 
him to-night a devil as big — and such is in the bosom of every 
Union man in Tennessee — as this pitcher; and whenever the Fed- 
eral army shall find its w;iy there, we will shoot them down like 
dogs and hang them on every limb we come to. [Applause.] 
They have had their time of hanging and shooting, and our lime 
comes next ; and I hope to God that it will not be long. I am 
watching in the papers the movements of the army, and whenever 
1 hear that my country is captured, I intend to return post haste 
and point out the rebels. [Cheers.] I have no other ambition on 
earth but to resurrect the Knoxville 117//;/ and get it in full blast, 
with one hundred thousand subscribers. [Loud cheering.] And 
then, as the negroes say down South, "I'll 'spress my opinion 
of some of them." [Greal laughter.] If I have any talent, it is 
the talent to pile up epithets one upon another. [Laughter and 
cheers.] In the town of Greenville, where Andrew Johnson re- 
sides, tl iey took out of the jail at one time two innocent Union 
men, who had committed no offense on the t'.ice of the earth but 
that of being Union men — Fry and his comrade, brv was a poor 
shoemaker with a wife and half a dozen children. A fellow from 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. J 9 

'way Down East in Maine, by the name of Daniel Leadbeater, the 
bloodiest and the most ultra man, the vilest wretch, the most unmit- 
igated scoundrel that ever made a track in East Tennessee — Colonel 
Daniel Leadbeater, late of the United States Army, but now a 
rebel in the secession army, took these two men, tied them with 
his own hands upon one limb, immediately over the railroad track, 
in the town of Greenville, and ordered them to hang four days and 
nights, and directed all the engineers and conductors to go by that 
hanging concern slow, in a kind of snail gallop, up and down the 
road, to give the passengers an opportunity to kick the rigid 
bodies and strike them with a rattan. And they did it. I pledge 
you my honor that on the front platform they made a business of 
kicking the dead bodies as they passed by ; and the women [I will 
not say the ladies, for down South we make a distinction between 
ladies and women] — the women, the wives and daughters of men 
in high position, waved their white handkerchiefs in triumph 
through the windows of the car at the sight of the two dead bodies 
hanging there. Leadbeater, for his murderous conrage, was pro- 
moted by Jeff Davis to the office of brigadier-general. He had 
an encounter, as their own papers at Eichmond state, at Bridge- 
port, not long ago, with a part of General Mitchel's army, where 
he got a glorious whipping. His own party turned round and 
chastised him for cowardice. He had courage to hang innocent 
unarmed men taken out of a jail, but he had not courage to face 
the Yankees and the Northern men that were under Mitehel and 
Buell. He took' to his heels like a coward and scavenger as he is. 
[Applause and cheers for General Mitehel.] Our programme is 
this, that when we get back into East Tennessee we will instruct 
all of our friends everywhere to secure and apprehend this fellow, 
Leadbeater ; and our purpose is to take him to that tree and make 
the widow of Fry tie the rope around his infernal neck. [Cheers.] 
In the county of Knox, where I reside, and only seven miles west 
of the town of Knoxville, they caught up Union men, tied them 
upon logs, elevated the logs upon blocks six or ten inches from the 
ground, put the men upon their breasts, tying their hands and 
feet under the log, stripped their backs entirely bare, and then, 
with switches, cut their backs literally to pieces, the blood running 
down at every stroke. They came into court when it was in ses- 
sion, and when the case was stated the judge replied: "These 
are revolutionary times, and there is no remedy for anything of 



20 PAESON BEOWNTLOW ON THE 

the kind." Hence, you see, our remedy is in our own hands ; and, 
with the help of guns, and swords, and sahers, we intend, God 
willing, to slay them when we get back there, wherever we find 
them. [Cheers.] 

In the jail where I lay they were accustomed to drive up with a 
cart, with an ugly, rough, flat-topped coffin upon it, surrounded by 
fifteen to forty men, with bristling bayonets, as a guard, and they 
marched in through the gate into the jail yard, with steady, military 
tread. We trembled in our boots, for they never notified us who 
was to be hanged, and you may imagine how your humble servant 
felt ; for if any man in that jail, under their law, deserved the 
gallows, I claim to have been the man. I knew it and they knew 
it. They came sometimes with two coffins, one on each cart, and 
they took two men at a time and marched them out. A poor old 
man of sixty-five and his son of twenty-five were marched out at 
one time and hanged on the same gallows. They made that poor old 
man, who was a Methodist class-leader, sit by and see his son hang 

till he was dead, and then they called him a d d Lincolnite 

Union shrieker, and said, " Come on ; it is your turn next." He 
sank, but they propped him up and led him to the halter, and 
swung both off on the same gallows. They came, after that, for 
another man, and they took J. C. Haum out of jail — a young man 
of fine sense, good address, and of excellent character — a tall, spare- 
made man, leaving a wife at home, with four or five helpless chil- 
dren. My wife passed the farm of Ilaum the other day, when 
they drove her out of Tennessee and sent her on to New Jersey — 
I thank them kindly for doing so — and saw his wife plowing, en- 
deavoring to raise corn for her suffering and starving children. 
That is the spirit of secession, gentlemen. And yet you have a sit 
of God-forsaken, unprincipled men at the North who are apolo- 
gizing for them and sympathizing with them. [Applause.] When 
they took -Haum out and placed him on the scaffold, they had a 
drunken chaplain. They were kind enough to notify him an hour 
before the hanging that he was to hang. Haum at once made an 
application for a Methodist preacher, a Union man, to come and 
pray for him. They denied him the privilege, and said thai GrOd 

didn't hear any prayers in behalf of any d d Union shrieker, 

and he had literally to do without the benefit of olergy. But ih y 
had near the gallows an unprincipled, drunken chaplain, of their 
own army, who got up and undertook to apologize for Haum. Ho 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 21 

said : " This poor, unfortunate man, who is about to pay the debt 
of nature, regrets the course he took. He said he was misled by 
the Union paper." Hauni rose up, and with a clear, stentorian 
voice, said : " Fellow-citizens, there is not a word of truth in that 
statement. I have authorized nobody to make such a statement. 
"What I have said and done, I have done and said with my eyes 
open, and if it were to be done over, I would do it again. I am 
ready to hang, and you can execute your purposes." He died like 
a man ; he died like a Union man, as an East Tennesseean ought to 
die. As God is my judge, I would sooner be Haum in the grave 
to-day, than any one of the scoundrels concerned in his murder. 
[Great applause.] Time rolled on. One event after another oc- 
curred, and finally a man of excellent character, one of Andy John- 
son's constituents from Greene County, by the name of Hessing 
Self, was condemned to be hung by this drum-head court-martial, 
and they were kind enough to let him know that he was to hang, 
a few hours before the hour appointed. His daughter, who had 
come down to administer to his comfort and consolation — a most 
estimable girl, about twenty-one years of age-;— Elizabeth Self, a 
tall, spare-made girl, modest, handsomely attired, begged leave to 
enter the jail to see her father. They permitted her, contrary to 
their usual custom and their savage barbarity, to go in. They had 
him in a small iron cage, a terrible affair ; they opened a little door, 
and the jailer admitted her. A parcel of us went to witness the 
scene. As she entered the cage where her father was — who was 
to die at four o'clock that afternoon — she clasped him around the 
neck, and he embraced her also, sobbing aDd crying most piteously. 
I stood by, and I never beheld such a sight since God Almighty 
made me, and I hope I may never see the like again. When they 
had parted, wringing each other by the hand, as she came out of 
the cage, stammering and trying to utter something intelligible, she 
lisped my name. She knew my face, and I could understand as 
much as that she desired me to write a dispatch to Jeff Davis and 
sign her name, begging him to pardon her father. I worded it 
about thus : 

Hon. Jefferson Davis [I did not believe the first word I wrote 
was the truth, but I put it there for the sake of form] — My father, 
Hessing Self, is sentenced to be hanged at four o'clock to-day. I 
am living at home, and my mother is dead. My father is my 
earthly all ; upon him my hopes are centered, and, friend, I pray 
you to pardon him. Respectfully, Elizabeth Self. 



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Jeff Davis, who had a better heart than the rest of them, per- 
haps, immediately responded — for he could not withstand the 
appeals of a woman — to General Carroll, and told him not to hang 
that man Self, but to keep him in jail and let him atone for his 
crimes a certain time. Self has served his time out, and has gone 
home, and that girl is saved the grief of being left alone without 
a father. 

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the spirit of secession all over the 
South; it is the spirit that actuates them everywhere; it is the 
spirit of murder, it is the spirit of the infernal regions, and, in God's 
name, can you any longer excuse or apologize for such murderous 
and bloodthirsty demons as live down in the Southern Confederacy ? 
[Loud cries of "jSTo, no."] Hanging is going on all over East 
Tennessee. They shoot Union men down in the fields, they whip 
them ; and, as strange as it may seem to you, in the counties of 
Campbell and Anderson, they actually lacerate with switches the 
bodies of females, wives and daughters of Union men — clever, re- 
spectable women. They show no quarters to male or female ; they 
rob their houses aud they throw them into prison. Our jails are 
all full now, and Ave have complained and thought it hard that our 
government has not come to our relief, for a more loyal, a more de- 
voted people to the Stars and Stripes never lived on the face of 
God's earth than the Union people of Tennessee. [Loud cheers.] 
With tears in their eyes, they begged me, upon leaving East Ten- 
nessee, for God Almighty's sake, to see the President, to see the 
army officers, so as to have relief sent to them and bring them out 
of jail. I hope, gentlemen, you will use your influence with tho 
army and navy, and all concerned, to relieve these people. They 
are the most abused, down-trodden, persecuted, and proscribed 
people that ever lived on the face of the earth. I am happy to an- 
nounce to you that the rebellion will soon be played out. Thank 
God for his mercies, it will soon have been played out. [Enthu- 
siastic cheers.] Richmond will be obliged to fall very soon, for 
that noble fellow, McClollan, will capture the whole of them. [Re- 
newed applause.] 

I have confidence and faith in Fremont, and hope he may rush 
into East Tennessee. If Halleck, Bnell &, Co. — [loud cheers] — will 
only capture the region round about Corinth and take Memphis, 
the play is out and the dog is dead. [Laughter and cheers.] Then 
let us drive the leaders down into the Gulf of Mexico, as tho devils 



SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 23 

drove the hogs into the sea of Galilee. [Laughter and applause.] 
But a few weeks prior to the last Presidential election they an- 
nounced in their papers that the great bull of the whole disunion 
flock was to speak in Knoxville — a man, the two first letters of 
whose name are W. L. Yancey — a fellow that the Governor of 
South Carolina pardoned out of the State prison for murdering his 
uncle, Dr. Earle. He was announced to speak, and the crowd was 
two to one Union men. I had never spoken to him in all my life. 
He called out in an insolent manner, "Is Parson Brownlow in this 
crowd ?" The disunionists hallooed out, " Yes, he is here." " I 
hope," said he, " the Parson will have the nerve to come upon the 
stand and have me catechise him." "No," said the Breckinridge 
secessionists. (Yes, gentlemen, we had four tickets in the field the 
last race — Lincoln and Hamlin, Bell and Everett — the Bell and 
Everett ticket was a kind of kangaroo ticket, with all the strength 
in the hind legs — [laughter] — and there was a Douglas and John- 
son and a Breckinridge and Lane ticket. As God is my judge, 
that was the meanest and shabbiest ticket of the four that was in 
the field. Lincoln was elected fairly and squarely under the forms 
of law and the Constitution, and though I was not a Lincoln man, 
yet I gave in to the will of the majority, and it is the duty of every 
patriot and true man to bow to the will of the majority. [Cheers.] 
The Parson then resumed his story :) But the crowd hallooed to 
Yancey, " Brownlow is here, but he has not nerve enough to mount 
the stand where you are." I rose and marched up the steps and said, 
" I will show you whether I have the nerve or not." " Sir," said 
he — and he is a beautiful speaker and personally a very fine-look- 
ing man — " are you the celebrated Parson Brownlow ?" " I am 
the only man on earth," I replied, " that fills the bin." [Laughter.] 
"Don't you think," said Yancey, "you are badly employed as a 
preacher, a man of your cloth, to be dabbling in politics and med- 
dling with state affairs?" "No, sir," said I; "a distinguished 
member of the party you are acting with, once took Jesus Christ 
up upon a mount — [great laughter] — and said to the Saviour, 'Look 
at the kingdoms of the world ! All these will I give thee if thou 
wilt fall down and worship me.' Now, sir," I said, " His reply 
to the devil is my reply to you : ' Get thee behind me, Satan.' " 
[Renewed laughter and applause.] I rather expected to be knocked 
down by him ; but I stood with my right side to him and a cocked 
Derringer in my breeches pocket. I intended if I went off the 



24 BBOWNLOW ON THE SUFFEKINGS OF UNION MEN. 

platform that he should go the other way. [Cheers.] " Now, sir," 
I said, " if you are through, I would like to make a few remarks." 
" Certainly — proceed," said Yancey. " Well, sir, you should tread 
lightly upon the toes of preachers, and you should get these dis- 
unionists to post you up hefore you launch out in this way against 
preachers. Are you aware, sir, that this old gray -headed man sit- 
ting here, Isaac Lewis, the president of the meeting, who has wel- 
comed you, is an old disunion Methodist preacher, and Buchanan's 
pension agent in this town, who has been meddling in politics all 
his lifetime? Sir," said I, "are you aware that this man, 
James D. Thomas, on my left, is a Breckinridge elector for this 
Congressional district? lie was turned out of the Methodist min- 
istry for whipping his wife and slandering his neighbors. Sir," 
said I, "are you aware that this young man sitting in front of us, 
Colonel Loudon C. Uaynes, the elector of the Breckinridge ticket 
for the State of Tennessee at large, was expelled from the Metho- 
dist ministry for lying and cheating his neighbor in a measure of 
corn ? Now," said I, " for God's sake, say nothing more about 
preachers until you know what sort of preachers are in your own 
ranks." And thus ended the colloquy between me and Yancey. 
I have never seen him since. Ladies and gentlemen, I have spoken 
much longer than I intended. [Cries of " Go on, go on."] I am 
hoarse and somewhat feeble. I have really been in bed all day 
sick, although not pretending to be so ; but I ventured out to try 
and make some effort if I could. In traveling I provide for a con- 
tingency of this sort. I have a regularly ordained deacon and cx- 
horter with me, and much finer speaker, Gen. S. F. Carey, of Cin- 
cinati, who is sound upon all the issues. 

Mr. Brownlow, on taking his seat, was loudly applauded. 

Gen. S. F. Carey, of Ohio, then followed in an eloquent speech, 
after which the meeting adjourned. 



IRRELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION. 



An Address by Parson Brownloio, delivered before the Young lien's Christian 
Association, at the Cooper Institute, New York, May 19, 1862. 



EEPOETED BY OHAS. B. COLLAE. 



Professor Eoswele D. Hitchcock, being called to the chair, 
made a few eloquent introductory remarks, exceedingly appropriate 
to the occasion, and then introduced Parson Brownlow to the au- 
dience, who, on coming forward to address them, was greeted with 
hearty and rapturous applause. 

The Parson then spoke as follows : 

Ladies and Gentlemen — Appearing before you this evening, I 
shall perhaps be briefer than I usually am on similar occasions. 
If so, it will be, however, of necessity. I will, moreover, as on 
all other occasions, make no effort whatever at display, but, as 
Othello terms it, "a round, unvarnished tale deliver." I will 
state facts to you of which I have personal knowledge, and, in 
doing so, try to avoid a repetition of the speech I delivered at the 
Academy of Music on Thursday evening. And in all my ad- 
dresses, such as they are, while I speak to the audience before me, 
and a Northern audience at that, I shall take particular pains to 
make such remarks, founded in fact, and in fact alone, as when 
reported — and I find many of the papers are very accurate and 
very correct in their reports — and carried 'way down to yonder 
Dixie, they will know and see there that I utter no denunciations 
against them here, however bitter and however vindictive they may 
seem to be, that I have not for the last twelve months uttered 
through every number of the widely-circulated paper I have issued 
in that country. [Applause.] I will make no statement whatever, 
I will utter no denunciations whatever, that I am not willing to go 
back into the very town where I live, and expect to live and die 
in, and utter in the hearing of the vilest secessionist that God in 



26 PAUSOM BKOWNLOW ON THE 

His providence, His mysterious providence, has permitted to live. 
It is known to many of you, and will now be known to you all — 
I do not make the announcement by way of any advertisement — 
that I am bringing out a book of some five hundred pages, which 
will make its appearance next week, illustrated throughout with 
very fine engravings of their hangings, shootings, whippings, pris- 
ons, cruelties, and savage barbarities ; and now having completed 
it, and being ready to send it before the people, they shall not say 
down in Dixie that I crossed Mason and Dixon's line to conjure up 
a terrible book — and I tell you it is a terrible document — they shall 
not say that I took to my heels and ran beyond Mason and Dixon's 
line to publish all these charges and all these violent denunciations 
of them ; but I intend, God being my helper, to go back among 
them, take thousands of copies of the book, and circulate them 
there. [Applause.] They shall see it, read it at home, and tremble 
in their boots, as I give a fair and honest but scathing version of 
their villainy and their murderous course and conduct from begin- 
ning to end. In presenting a brief outline of the " Irreligion of Se- 
cession," I shall not look at it myself through a pair of jaundiced 
spectacles ; else I should parade before this large and intellectual 
audience a huge cotton Minerva, sprung from the brain of these 
boastful Jupiters of the bogus Confederacy South — a set of men, 
take them one and all, who have, under all circumstances, from 
first to last, wherever they have spoken of anything done or said 
north of Mason and Dixon's line, looked at it through a magnify- 
ing cotton-stalk telescope. [Applause.] While I am prepared to 
do them justice, by way of denouncing them and exposing their 
unmitigated villainies and revolting corruptions, I am prepared, and 
have always been prepared— though a pro-slavery man and advo- 
cate in days gone by — to do the people of the North justice, de- 
spite the peculiar institution. "We have made in the South the 
institution of slavery the occasion of kicking up this great fuss and 
bringing about all this deviltry and confusion, and all this abomi- 
nable conduct with which the country abounds, more particularly 
in the South. We have done so without any cause. " We of the 
South"— as I have, said at home, and sa\ here to-night, and shall 

always say, while J have censured a few of the violent agitators at 

the North — "are to blame for this revolution. We brought it 
about ; nothing else would do us; no compromise you could offer us 
would satisfy us." It was a fuss generally that they wanted, and, 



IRRELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION. 27 

m God's name, I hope they shall have a fuss to their hearts' con- 
tent before they get through. [Applause.] Why, when you were 
all anxious — as I was, and as was every gentleman and lady who 
reads the papers and keeps posted in regard to the current news of 
the day — during the sitting and the failure of that Peace Congress 
in AVashington, do you not recollect the dispatch that Pryor, of 
Virginia, sent home from the House of Representatives to Rich- 
mond and Petersburg, saying that they could get the Crittenden 
Compromise, but they did not intend to have it ? No, they did not 
intend to have any compromise. Judge Douglas, as you will recol- 
lect, overheard Mason say in the Senate of the United States : " No 
matter what compromise the North may offer, the South must so 
contrive it as to reject any offers they may tender." Douglas ex- 
posed him publicly in the Senate of the United States for having 
said this. Fourteen Seuators in the United States Congress, repre- 
senting seven cotton States, acting under oaths solemnly adminis- 
tered upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, and having 
sworn they would support the Constitution and the laws of the 
United States, and act in good faith as the confidential advisers of 
President Buchanan, night after night were holding caucuses from 
eleven until three o'clock in the morning, scheming and plotting to 
overturn the Government, sending dispatches home upon the 
wires, which had then not been captured by the Federal authority 
as a military necessity, instructing their friends in the several 
States to pass acts of secession at once, plunge their States out of 
the Union, and seize upon Fort Moultrie, Fort Morgan, and this 
and that fort — men who in a short time afterward occupied seats 
in the rebel'Congress and in the rebel Cabinet — unmitigated and 
infamous villains, who ought to have their tongues cut out by the 
roots, and they themselves hung on the gallows as high as Hainan 
ever hung. [Applause.] 

It was announced that I wculd appear before you this evening, 
and that I would say something to you about the " Irreligion of 
Secession" — the irreligion of this great rebellion. In God's name 
where shall I commence? — where shall I begin, and where and 
when shall I end ? It originated in telling, writing, and swearing 
lies, and in stealing, and it has been kept up by that means, all the 
time improving these iniquitous offenses and practices as they 
grow older and broader. [Loud cheering.] As to the religion of 
the thing down South — I assure it — it is all irreligion with us at 



28 PAKSON BUOWNLOW ON THE 

the South. We are going, as churches, the way Noai i's clucks went 
in olden time — helhvard. [Laughter.] The churches, latterly, 
throughout the South, are hroken up and destroyed. The Union 
men will not sit in the church and hear a secessionist preach and 
pray. The secessionists will not hear a Unionist, or Union shrieker, 
as they call it, exhort, preach, or pray ; and the test of qualifica- 
tion of the gifts of a minister now for preaching the Gospel down 
South is, Can you lie without any conscientious scruples? Can 
you. as a minister, drink mean whisky hy the quart ? Can you 
boast of your ability to fight, head an army, and lead them on to 
victory and glory in the rebel army? Allow me to say to you of 
my personal knowledge — many of you are Episcopalians, and no 
doubt worthy and acceptable and pious members of the church — 
allow me to say to you — and I always use names, I always give 
dates, times, and places, so that there can be no mistakes — if you 
want to detect me in a falsehood, I will help you to do so — [laugh- 
ter] — one of your bishops — the Right Reverend Honorable Major 
Leonidas Polk, with his cocked hat, epaulets on his shoulders, and 
a sword hanging by his side, is strutting about the swamps of Cor- 
inth, Mississippi, and has been for months drinking mean whisky 
by the quart and swearing profanely. Taking the name of God in 
vain is a common thing with him. That is what secession lias 
brought him to. 

Methodist preachers throughout the South are entitled to more 
consideration than the ministers of any other denomination, for 
there is more unanimity among them. They arc nearly all, without 
exception, rascals. [Great laughter.] They have all pitched in. 
When, the other day, they held an annual conference, titty miles 
above where I reside, in the town of Greenville, presided over by 
the venerable Bishop James O. Andrews — the man who split the 
turkey in two when the General Conference was held in 1844, and 
whom 1 electioneered for in the General Conference in Philadelphia 
in 1832, when lie was ordained and elected Bishop — some of the 
preachers disgraced themselves on that occasion, and, to render 
themselves conspicuous and more acceptable to the secession fam- 
ily in which they were boarding, brought me upon the carpet — I 
being at home, fifty miles distant. If 1 had been present, it was 
about the last thing they would have undertaken. Neither Bishop 
Andrews nor the parliamentary rules of tho occasion would have 
choked me oil". Had they mounted me, I should have mounted 



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29 



them in return— [laughter]— and " when Greek meets Greek, then 
comes the tug of war," you know. They denounced me by name, 
and my paper — the one as infamous, and the other as a traitor to 
the South, and clamored for hanging me, and such cheering and 
clapping of hands you perhaps never heard as this proposal called 
forth— and the Bishop enjoyed it as well as anybody else. He 
enjoyed it equally well as he had the hospitalities of my house on 
many an occasion. I only mention the fact to show the irreligion 
of secession. The Rev. Mr. Fitch — an old presiding elder of the 
Tennessee Conference — a man who has been a member of every 
general conference for the last thirty odd years ; who performed 
the tour of Europe in the company of Bishop Soules, and who has 
two sons in the rebel army ; whose head is now whitened with 
the frost of fifty or sixty years — is now the regularly elected and 
commissioned chaplain at Cumberland Gap, near Knoxville, in 
Colonel Ring's regiment. Mr. Fitch makes a business of getting 
drunk, carryiug his bottle of liquor with him, and in his discourses 
to the soldiers on Sunday, he tells them that in the cause in which 
they are engaged, they are fighting for the independence of the 
South, for their homes and firesides — fighting to keep back the 
abolition hordes of the North, and that if they die in this cause 
they will be saved iu heaven even without grace. [Great laugh- 
ter.] I tell you, upon the honor of a man, that they take posses- 
sion of the pulpit to preach to the soldiers on that subject, and one 
of them, having been called upon to open a meeting with prayer — 
the Rev. Dr. Baldwin, of the Methodist Church — as is the custom 
with the Methodists, threw up his hands, and said : " Oh, Lord, 
we thank Thee for having inaugurated this revolution." Senator 
Pickens, a judge and a State senator, who was in front of the 
pulpit, rose up, and taking his hat, as the minister concluded that 
first paragraph, said, " G — d d — n such a prayer as that." [Laugh- 
ter.] The Rev. J. R. Graves, at the head of the book publishing 
house in Nashville, and the editor of the Tennessee B/qrtist, having 
25,000 or 30,000 subscribers, when the Federal army approached 
Nashville, and he found his neck was in danger of the halter, took to 
his heels and ran out of Nashville in a sulky at eight or nine miles 
to the hour, and I passed him as I was coming with the flag of 
truce. lie looked like a scapegallows, as he is, and he went on to 
Richmond, raised a regiment of men and armed them with pikes. 
"Where is this brother that introduced me ? [turning to Rev. Dr. 



30 P ARSON BKOWNLOW ON THE 

Hitchcock.] You are of the Presbyterian denomination. [Laugh- 
ter.] Old School or Kew School ? 

A Gentleman in tiie Audience — I will ask Parson Brownlow 
if he knew the Rev. Dr. Martin ? 

Parson Bkownlow — I will do him justice directly. [Laughter.] 

The Same Gentleman — I believe he is a graduate of the Union 
Theological Seminary, and there must be a number of this audience 
who know him. 

Pakson Bkownlow — You didn't fully graduate him at your 
college. [Laughter.] lie is now taking lessons under the devil, 
to my personal knowledge. [Great laughter.] I thought my 
brother (the Eev. Dr. Hitchcock) was an Old School Presbyterian ; 
ay, belonging to the Old School, who sing David's psalms with 
double lines and grease their boots with tallow. [Laughter.] But 
I had that he is a New School Presbyterian. Mr. Martin is a New 
School Presbyterian, a native of East Tennessee, and a citizen of 
the town in which I lived. Until he became a secessionist he was 
a clever man — a high-minded, honorable man. But allow me to 
say, that whenever secession enters into a man at the South, 
whether Priest or Levitc, whether a highlander or a lowlander, a 
prince or a peasant, the devil accompanies it. They both enter 
together, and you may expect that man to do the work of the 
devil from that time forward and forevermore. Mr. Maynard, a 
member of Congress from the Knoxville district — not to the bogus 
Congress, but to the United States Congress — [applause] — is an 
elder in the New School Presbyterian Church, one of the finest 
scholars in East Tennessee — a very high-toned and honorable gen- 
tleman, lie had no sooner left the city of Knoxville and made 
his escape across the Cumberland Mountains, for his seat in Con- 
gress, than the Rev. Joseph II. Martin, about whom the gentleman 
inquired, made a set speech, going through all the formalities of a 
text on the Lord's day, and preached an entire sermon — an abusive 
and outrageous sermon — and prayed an outrageous prayer, leveled 
at Mr. Maynard. He implored Cod that his traitorous feet and 
cowardly tracks might never again be seen or known in Tennessee, 
and that they might never press the soil of the streets of Knox- 
ville. The wife of Mr. Maynard. who is in this neighborhood, and, 
for aught 1 know, may be in this audience to-night, and who is in 
every sense an intelligent, amiable, and Christian lady, and who 
was present on the occasion when her husband was so denounced, 



IRRELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION. 31 

affected to tears, rose up and left the house ; and although she was 
driven out from Knoxville hut a few weeks ago, it is to her honor 
and credit that she never disgraced herself by visiting his vile 
sanctuary any more. [Cries of " Good."] In the most sneaking 
and hypocritical manner he paid her a visit afterward, and apolo- 
gized to her for his abuse of her husband ; said he did not want to 
do it, but his elders and Major Wallace required him to do it, and 
he had to do it to hold on to his salary and place. What do you 
think of a devil like that? That is one of your New School 
Presbyterians. 

Now for the Old School. [Laughter.] I have represented all 
the other denominations ; let us hear from the Old School now- 
The pastor of the Old School Church in Knoxville — a man of edu- 
cation and of very fair talents, and, until secession broke out, I 
thought him a gentleman and a Christian — a short time before 
he left Knoxville had occasion to preach on the subject of secession. 
He gave out that he would hold forth in his large brick church, and 
the announcement attracted a large crowd. A portion of my 
family were there from curiosity to hear what was to be said in 
favor of secession. Now, gentlemen and ladies, I am going to 
quote Mr. Harrison correctly, and I wish the newspaper reporters 
here to take down the words just as I repeat them. I want him — 
I want the world and the rest of mankind — [laughter] — to know 
and read what he said upon that subject. He made the bold and 
open declaration that Jesus Christ was a Southerner, born upon 
Southern soil. [Laughter.] He did not intend it as any play upon 
words or as any joke. lie said "that Jesus Christ was a South- 
erner, born upon Southern soil ; and so were his disciples and 
apostles — all, except Judas, and he was a Northern man." Hold- 
ing up the Bible in his hands, he remarked to the audience, " I had 
sooner" — [I imagine he was sober ; I would not say he was, for 
they are nearly all drunk on corn-whisky] — " I had sooner, my 
brethren, announce to you a text for discussion from the pulpit out 
of the Bible or Testament that I knew had been printed and 
bound in hell, than out of any Bible or Testament that was printed 
or bound north of Mason and Dixon's line I" These are the identi- 
cal words. That was a part of a Gospel sermon on the Lord's 
day, and a more unmitigated, God-forsaken set of scoundrels do 
not live than the preachers of the Gospel down South. Of course, 
you must understand that, I make honorable exceptions in every 



32 PAESON EEOWNLOW ON THE 

denomination. As a general thing — I say it in sorrow and not in 
anger — the most unmitigated set of villains they have in the South 
are the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Episcopalian preach- 
ers. We have a single exception in the town iu which I live — the 
Eev. Thomas W. Hume, rector of the Episcopal Church — a Union 
man, born and raised in the town of Knoxville, a graduate of East 
Tennessee University — a slaveholder and a man of property — a 
very liberal and reliable man. Bishop Otie furnished him some 
months ago with a new prayer. The old prayer would not an- 
swer, because it required him to pray for the President of the 
United States, and to do that was to pray in effect for old Abe 
Lincoln. That was worse, Bishop Otie thought, than to pray for 
the devil, and he, therefore, furnished him with another prayer, 
substituting the President of the Confederate States of America, 
and the Confederate Government where the United States Govern- 
ment was named or alluded to. Mr. Hume, frankly and promptly, 
like a man, said he would not abandon his prayer-book and the 
regular form ; that he did not believe in the Confederate Govern- 
ment or in Jeff Davis. They turned him out and procured another 
pliant tool and catspaw, who was willing to pray for anybody for 
his victuals, his wine, and his liquor. [Laughter.] 

I am addressing the Young Men's Christian Association. The 
members of that organization, besides many hundreds of others, 
have expected me, upon this occasion, to speak of the " Irreligion 
of Secession" down South ; but, as I remarked at the outset, where 
shall I begin ? what shall not I say ? what shall I not charge upon 
them? All the iniquities that ever prevailed anywhere on the 
face of God's green earth they have in full blossom in every State 
south of Mason and Dixon's line. I repeat to you that the 
churches there are all utterly ruined ; they are all going to de- 
struction. The ministers, class-leaders, deacons, exhorters, are all 
talking secession, lying secession, drinking mean liquor, and advo- 
cating the cause of Jeff Davis and the devil; and they have, aban- 
doned God and His holy religion. Wicked as you are reported to 
have been, I invoke, to-night, the prayers of the people of New- 
York for these vile, unmitigated devils in the South. 

After this statement you will not think it strange that, when 
they tendered me a passport and escort to leave the Confederacy, 
1 gladly and cheerfully accepted them. And in this connection I 
will g'veyou a very brief history of my adventures in leaving that 



IRRELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION. 33 

country, which I failed to do at the Academy of Music. They 
held me in prison three months, and then I received a letter from 
Mr. Benjamin — the hero of Yale College, where he commenced 
stealing when he was a college boy there, and who has kept it up 
ever since. Talk about the corruptions of Abe Lincoln and his 
Cabinet ; why, these Southern leaders can out-Herod Herod, and 
I would not insult the memory of Judas by comparing him to 
any of them. As I said, Benjamin sent me a letter from Eich- 
mond, the burden of which was — " You are a very bad man, Mr. 
Brownlow, a dangerous man to remain in the Southern Confeder- 
acy, and we propose to give you a passport and military escort to 
take you away from our lines among the people with whom you 
sympathize." I said, in reply, " Good! we will strike a bargain; 
give me your passport and a military escort, and I promise you in 
return to do more for the Southern Confederacy than the devil 
has ever done — I will quit the country." [Great laughter.] I 
knew he had never left the country. Although I was feeble, and 
could not walk ten steps without assistance, yet I told them I was 
ready to go. I took some bed-clothes along, and fixed myself up 
as comfortably as I could to make the trip. I had, as an escort, 
twelve men armed with bayonets and with muskets loaded with 
buckshot. They were selected from a rebel company, but they 
were Union men, personally known to me, friends that would have 
fought, bled, and died for me, though in the vile service of Davis, 
and the two officers who went with them were Union men — Adj. 
Young and Lieut. Bryan, a cousin of my wife. With this 
escort I started, and we were interrupted at different points by the 
rebel troops and by the citizens, who urged them to bring Brown- 
low out of the cars and hang him. At Athens, 65 miles from 
Knoxville, where we had to stop for dinner, they made a rush for 
the cars, but the officers, planting six men at each end, declared 
they would all shoot as long as they had loads in their muskets, 
and then they would use their bayonets. [Applause.] One of 

the rebel officers said he must see the " d d old traitor any 

how before he was landed north of Mason and Dixon's line." 
They told him that he could come and look at me if the sight 
would be of any service to him. They brought him in ; he in- 
spected me particularly ; looked daggers at me, and I looked dag- 
gers at him. I had just as much brass in my face as he. 
" Well," says he, " I am satisfied ; I now believe all I have ever 



34 PAESON BEOWNLOW ON THE 

beard about him ; I believe that be is just as dangerous as be 

ay as ever said to be; but it is a pretty d d piece of work 

that be should be gallanted to Nashville in this way, with a guard 
and passport. Why, I should like to perform the pilgrimage to 
Nashville myself on the same terms." " Well," says I, " you hold 
on here a few days; there is a penitentiary at Nashville, and the 
sheriff will take you there at the expense of the county." [Laugh- 
ter.] Then he wanted to pitch into me, but the officers restrained 
him, and told me I had better not say anything more. Having 
always been a loyal man, I told them that I would submit; it was 
pretty hard work, however, to keep my mouth shut. [Laughter.] 
At some other places they came around with ropes, and although 
I am not very good at interpreting hieroglyphics, I understood 
what they meant. At one depot they made a rush and swore 
they would have me any way, but my escort planted themselves at 
each end of the car and kept them back, and some of them then 
threatened to shoot through the window. At Shelbyville, General 
Hardee arrested me and confined me for ten days, and was on the 
eve of sending me to Montgomery, but my officers insisted on bis 
regarding Mr. Benjamin's passport, indorsed by Jeff Davis, and 
the flag of truce granted by Major-General Geo. IB. Crittenden, 
addressed to General Buell, saying " it would be a disgrace to the 
Confederacy and the whole of us not to carry out our pledges." 
So he finally agreed to let me off, after holding me in confinement 
ten days. 

The railroad being torn up, we hired carriages, buggies, and 
omnibuses, and set out on our journey upon a beautiful turnpike. 
We were interrupted by the cavalry of this fellow Morgan, about 
whose depredations you have all heard so much, and they had a 
serious notion of hanging me whether or no, but they permitted 
us to pass, and we passed on until we got within five miles of 
Nashville. It was a cold day early in March. "We saw first, in the 
distance, on the side of the turnpike, a large log-heap on fire, sur- 
rounded by men, and then we saw any number of tents, and I be- 
held in the distance the Stars and Stripes fluttering in the breeze. 
[Cheers.] The first and the only time since I left homo that 1 was 
induced to shed a tear was on that occasion. The soldiers drew 
up in front of the carriage as we advanced. " Halt I halt there!" 
they called out ; "by what authority are you coming in here with 
a flag of truce? - ' I roso up in the carriage, as my friend by my side 



IRRELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION. 35 

was holding the lines, and said, " Gentlemen, are you the Federal 
pickets?" "Yes, sir." "Well, then," said I, "I am Parson 
Brownlow." Some of them dropped their guns, others clapped 
their hands. They all rushed to the carriage, and would not per- 
mit me to get out of it, but lifted me out. [Applause.] "We 
know you are suffering with the cold," said they ; "come up to the 
fire and warm yourself." They dispatched one of their sergeants 
to Brigadier-General Wood, and he came riding in on a fine black 
charger, his aid by his side, and he was so excited as to forget his 
dignity as an officer by taking his hat off, waving it, and crying 
out, " So many cheers, my gallant men, for Parson Brownlow," 
and they made the welkin ring. He made a glorious speech to the 
boys, and addressing me, he said, "I will put you into my carriage 
with my aids, and send you down to General Buell." Gentlemen, 
I had not been accustomed to such treatment. [The Parson was 
affected to tears.] At Nashville I met as many as ninety-five regi- 
ments, and had the pleasure to see every division march out under 
Mitchell, and Thomas, and Crittenden, and one and another, until 
they all marched toward Pittsburg Landing. I left on a steamer, 
by way of Fort Donelson, and up the Ohio, for Cincinnati. There 
I commenced speaking, and have been speaking on my way here 
since ; and while I am not a vain man, and have nothing to make 
me vain, it is peculiarly gratifying to me to have met with the 
treatment and reception given to me before I reached this city and 
since, for no sooner had a few straggling Cincinnati papers, con- 
taining extracts from my speeches, got through the blockade, down 
into the land of Dixie, than the Southern papers commenced 
boasting that I was utterly repudiated at the North, wherever I 
went, and that I was hissed and scorned as a traitor by the people, 
who hated a traitor to the South as they did a traitor to their own 
country. 

I have spoken longer than I intended, and I have spoken under 
great disadvantage. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the 
patience with which you have heard me. I regret that I could not 
have interested you with a better speech. I can only say that I 
hope you will overlook all errors and blunders I may have com- 
mitted, in view of the goodness and glory of the cause in which 
we are engaged — [applause] — the cause of God, of our country, of 
our Union — a cause in which I am willing to suffer, in which I 
have always been willing to suffer, and for which, if need be, I am 



3G IREELIGIOUS CHARACTER OP THE REBELLION. 

willing to die, and I will never shrink from offering np my life for 
the defense of the Union and the Stars and Stripes of my country, 
if the sacrifice is required of me. [Applause.] I have hut two 
hoys in the world — one is with me now, the other is a captain in 
the Federal array, now marching upon the Cumberland Gap, 
and he is expecting to march upon East Tennessee, and, God 
helping, to recover his old home : and as God is my witness before 
you this afternoon, as much as I love that boy — a gallant fellow as 
he is — I would sooner that his body was riddled with grape-shot, 
fighting under the flag of the Union, than that he should triumph 
under the infernal flag that floats over the Southorn Confederacy. 
[Loud and long continued applause.] 

After a brief but eloquent speech from Gen. Carey, the meeting 
adjourned. 




BOOK. 

Being his own Narrative of his Perils. 
Adventures and Sufferings among the 
Secessionists of Tennessee. 

As to its contents, we have no hesitation in saying that the 
public will be startled at this narrative of facts. It lays bare the 
persecutions and cruelty which marked the development of the 
secession conspiracy in Tennessee, the disasters and the ruin with 
which it devastated communities once prosperous, and sundered 
families once happy ; more than all, it exposes the bad and reck- 
less ambition, and the relentless bloodthirstiness, by which the 
ringleaders of the conspiracy were stimulated to their work of 
crime and treason. 

The narrative is one of personal experiences. The author 
vouches for the accuracy of its statements. The public may, 
therefore, accept it as not only a reliable but a peculiar chapter in 
the general history of the times ; and we are confident that no 
more significant, startling, or instructive memorial of the Rebel- 
lion, in its minute personal and social bearings, is now accessible. 

The public are well aware that Mr. Browistlow is a bold-speak- 
ing man. In this narrative of his sufferings, composed mostly 
while confined in the jail at Knoxville, he has uttered his thoughts 
in language of extraordinary force and fearlessness, scathing his 
adversaries even while in their power, and appealing to his coun- 
trymen even from his cell with the urgency of a martyr. 



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successive numbers will be issued as often as Discourses worthy a place in the Serial can be found ; 
oat of the many reported, we hope to elect twelve each year. 



NUMBERS ALREADY PURLISHED. 

No. 1.— CHRISTIAN RECREATION AND UNCHRISTIAN AMUSEMENT, 
Sermon by Rev. T L. Cutler. 

No. 2.— MENTAL CULTURE FOR WOMEN, Addresses by Rev. H. W. Beecher 
and Hon. Jas. T. Brady. 

No. 3.— GRANDEURS OF ASTRONOMY, Discourse by Prof. 0. M. Mitchell. 

No. 4.— PROGRESS AND DEMANDS OF CHRISTIANITY, Sermon by Rev. Wu. 

H. MlLBURN. 

No. 5.— JESUS AND THE RESURRECTION, Sermon by Rev. A. Kingman Nott. 

No. 6.— TRIBUTE TO HUMBOLDT, Addresses by Hon. Geo. Bancroft, Rev. Dr. 
Thompson, Profs. Agassiz, Lieber, Bache and Guyot. 

No. 7.— COMING TO CHRIST, Sermon by Rev. Henry M. Scudder, 1). D., M. D. 
No. 8.— DANIEL WEBSTER, Oration by Hon. Edward Everett, at the Inaugur- 
ation of the statue of Webster, at Boston, Sept. 17th, 1859. 

No. 9.— A CHEERFUL TEMPER, a Thanksgiving Discourse, by Rev. Wm. 
Adams, D. D. 

No. 10.— DEATH OF WASHINGTON IRVING, Address by Hon. Edward 
Everett and Sermon by Rev. Jno. A. Todd. 

No. 11.— GEORGE WASHINGTON, Oration by Hon. Thop. S. Bocock, at tho 
Inauguration of the statue of Washington, in the city of Washington, February 
22d, 'i860. 

No. 12.— TRAVEL, ITS PLEASURES, ADVANTAGES AND REQUIREMENTS, 
Lecture by J. H. Siddons. 

No. 13.— ITALIAN INDEPENDENCE, Addresses by Rev. Henry Wakd Beeciier, 
Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D. D., Rev. Jos. P. Thompson, D. D., and Prof. 0. M. 
Mitchell. Delivered in New York. Feb. 17th, 18(30. 

No. 14.— SUCCESS OF OUR REPUBLIC, Oration by Hon. Edward Everett, in 
Boston, July 4th, 1860 

Nog. 15 & 1G.— (Two in one, 20 cents.) WEBSTER'S BPEECH, in the United 
States Senate, on the FORCE BU.L, and JACKSON'S PROCLAMATION to South 
Carolina in 1833. 

Nob. 17 & 18.— (Two in one, 20 cents.) WEBSTER'S REPLY TO 1IAYNE. 

No. 19. LAFAYETTE, (Mat ion by Hon. Charles Sumner, delivered in New 
York and Philadelphia, Dec., lbOU. 



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SLIGHT COLD," COUCH, 

HOARSENESS, OR SORE THROAT, 



Which might be checked with a simple remedy, if neglected, 

often terminate seriously. Few are aware of the importance 

of stopping a Cough, or " slight cold" in its first stage ; 

that which in the beginning would yield to a mild 

^Cf»jmjy remedy, if not attended to, soon attacks the lungs. 



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Bronchial 



"BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" 

Were first introduced eleven years ago It has been proved that they are the best article before the 
public for Cocghs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, the Hacking Cough in Consumption, and 
numerous affections of the Throat, giving immediate relief. 

PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND SINCERS 

will find them effectual for clearing and strengthening the voice. 



CERTIFICATES. 

Commonwealth op Massachusetts, 
State House, Senate Chamber, Boston, July 21, 1860. 
John I. Brown & Son : 

Ga'.femen : Your Troches are too well and favorably known to need commendation, but I will 
merely say that 1 have used them frequently during the past five years, and regard them as the 
best preparation known to me for the vocal organs. 

I am truly yours, CHARLES A. PHELFS, 

President Massachusetts Senate. 
From Mr. C. H. Gardner, Principal of Rutgers Female Institute, New York. 

Dear Sirs: 1 have been afflicted with Bronchitis during the past winter, and found no relief till 
I found your " Bronchial Troches." I shall take pleasure in recommending their use to a large 
class of pupils, and to others who may need this remedy. 

Yours, respectfully, C H. GARDNER. 

To Messrs. John I. Brown & Son, Boston. 

Messrs. John I. Brown d) Son : I have constantly used your " Bronchial Troches " for two years, 
and tiud them particularly efficacious in clearing and strengthening the voice, either for singing 
or speaking. Yours, respectfully, 

Academy of Music, Sept. 23, 1856. JULIA BARROVS 

"That trouble in my throat (for which the ' Troches ' are a specific), having made me often 
mere whisperer." 

'■Pre-eminently the first and best." 

" I recommend their use to public speakers." 

" Great service in subduing Hoarseness." 

" I have proved them excellent in Whooping Cough." 

" Great benefit in affections of the Bronchial organs." 

" A simple and elegant combination for Coughs," etc. 

" Contain no opium or any thing iujurious." 

'• Very beneficial in clearing the throat, when compelled to speak though suffering from 
cold." Rev. S. J. P. ANDERSON, St. Louis. 

" I heartily unite in the above commendation." Rev. M. SCHUYLER, St. Louis. 

" A friend having tried many remedies for Asthma, with no benefit, found relief from the 
Troches." Rev. I). LETTS, Frankfort. III. 

" Most salutary relief in Bronchitis." Rev. S. SFIGFRLED, Morristown, Ohio. 

" I have been much afflicted with Bronchial Affection, producing Hoarseness and Cough. The 
Troches are the only effectual remedy, giving power and clearness to the voice." 

Rev. GEO SLACK, Minister Church of England , Milton Parsonage, Canada. 

" Two or three times I have been attacked by Bronchitis, so as to make me fear that I should 
be compelled to desist from ministerial labor, through disorder of the Throat. But from a 
moderate use of the Troches, I now find myself able to preach nightly, for weeks together, with- 
out the slightest inconvenience." 

Rev. E. B. RYCKMAN, Wesleyan Minister. Montreal. 



N. P. WILLIS 

Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER 

Rev. E. H. CHAPIN, iV. Y. 

Rev. DANIEL WISE, N. Y. 

Rev. H. W. WARREN, Boston. 

Dr. J. F. W. LANE, Boston. 

Dr. G. F. BIGELOW, BosU.n. 

Dr. A. A. HAYES, Chemist, Boston. 



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PULPIT AND ROSTRUM. List of Numbers 

Continued from 2<1 page of Cover. 

Nos. 26 & 27 (Two in one, 20 cents).— THREE UNLIKE SPEECHES. THE 
ABOLITIONISTS AND THEIR RELATIONS TO THE WAR. A Lecture by 
William Lloyd Garrison, delivered at the Cooper Institute, New York, January 
14th, 1862. THE WAR NOT FOR EMANCIPATION OR CONFISCATION, a 
Speech bv Hon. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, delivered in the IT. S. Senate. 
January 23d, 1862. Also, AFRICAN SLAVERY, THE CORNER-STONE OF 
THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, a Speech by Hon. Alexander H. Si-ephens. 
Vice-President of the Confederacy. 

No. 28.— THE WAR: A SLAVE UNION OR A FREE? Speech of Hon 
Martin F. Conway, delivered in the House of Representatives, December 12. 1861. 

No. 29.— ORATION BY HON. GEORGE BANCROFT, before the citizens of 
New York, on the 22d of February, 1862, to which is added Washington's 
Farewell Address. 

No. 30.— THE SABBATH, AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE STATE : deliv- 
ered before one of the largest religious audiences ever assembled in New York, 
March 9th, 1862. 



THREE UNLIKE SPEF n ff^, 

BY 

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISC/N, of Massachusetts, 
GARRETT DAVIS, of Kentucky, 
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, of Georgia, 

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The Abolitionists, and their Relations to the War: A Lecture by 
[AM Lloyd Garrison, delivered at the Cooper Institute, New York, 

...unary 14, 1862. 

The War not for Confiscation or Emancipation : A Speech by Hon. 
Garrett Davis, delivered in the U. S. Senate, January 23, 1862. 

African Slavery, the Corner-stone of the Southern Confederacy : A 
Speech by Hon. Alexander II. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confed- 
eracy, in which the speaker holds that "African Slavery as it exists among 
us is the proper status of the Negro in our form of Civilization;" and, 
"our new Government [the Southern Confederacy] is the first in the his- 
tory of the world based' upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral 
truth." 



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